Seidea participant building her cybersecurity career

SEIDEA · YOUR PATHWAY INTO CYBER

Build your pathway into cybersecurity.

Discover where your skills fit, create a personalised career plan and access the training, guidance and opportunities you need to move forward.

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Career guidance built around you

Creating pathways · Changing careers · Strengthening the industry

9,000+

Women supported

500+

Women trained

73.8%

In employment within six months

80%

Certification pass rate

Trusted by leading organisations

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Reporting period: 2019–2025 · Read the impact methodology

Seidea AI

Career guidance built around you.

Seidea AI helps you explore roles, understand your transferable skills and turn your goals into practical next steps.

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I work in project management and want to move into cybersecurity, but I don't have a technical background.
Your project-management experience could translate well into cyber risk, governance, security programme management or third-party risk. Let's identify which pathway best matches your interests and current experience.

Your career journey

From uncertainty to a clear pathway

Four stages designed to move you from exploring cybersecurity to progressing in your career.

Stage 1

Discover

Understand cybersecurity roles and where your experience fits.

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Stage 2

Prepare

Develop the skills, confidence and evidence employers expect.

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Stage 3

Connect

Access programmes, mentors, peers and employment opportunities.

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Stage 4

Progress

Continue building your career after securing your first role.

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Find your next step

Coming soonFree

Cloud Security Bootcamp

Deadline: 30 May 2027
6 weeks · Starts To be confirmed
Virtual · BME women 18+
Sponsored by Sage + CompTIA
Cloud essentialsIAMData protectionGovernance
Applications openFree

Cybersecurity Bootcamp

Deadline: 31 October 2026
12 weeks · Starts October 2026
Hybrid · BME women 18+
Sponsored by Sage + CompTIA
Security+Network securityIncident responseCompliance
Coming soonFree

AI Essentials Bootcamp

Deadline: 30 March 2027
6 weeks · Starts November 2026
Virtual · BME women 18+
Sponsored by Sage + CompTIA
AI fundamentalsAI securityAI ethicsAI governance
Seidea participant

Participant story

From operations manager to cyber risk analyst.

Previous career

Operations Manager, Retail

Seidea programme

Cybersecurity Bootcamp

Skills developed

Risk assessment, Security+, SOC workflows

Current role

Cyber Risk Analyst

"Seidea didn't just teach me cybersecurity. It helped me see that the skills I already had — managing people, analysing processes, communicating risk — were exactly what cyber teams needed."

— Bootcamp graduate, 2025

See it in action

Inside a Seidea bootcamp

Hear from the women redefining what a career in cybersecurity looks like.

For partners and employers

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You don't need to have everything figured out.

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